improve

«improve» in Mova's judaism dictionary: To make something better (improve your handwriting) — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (improve, improves, improved, improving); noun: improvement

meaning for a pupil

1) To make something better (improve your handwriting). tree →

2) To get better (her reading improved). tree →

3) Improve on: to do better than before. tree →

sense in the lessons

At school it is used for learning and feedback: «How can you improve this?», «Your spelling has improved». Teachers set targets for improving. In science, you improve an experiment to make it fairer or more accurate. In health: sleep, food and exercise improve your mood and fitness. In maths, a score that improves goes up. Phrases: improve on, improve your skills, room for improvement, much improved.

examples

• Tenneman's "Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie," improved by Prof. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
• You can improve your story by adding more adjectives. tree →
• My times tables have really improved this term. tree →
• How could we improve our experiment? tree →
• The weather improved in the afternoon. tree →
• Practise every day to improve your swimming. tree →
• She improved on her best time by two seconds. tree →
• Eating well can improve how you feel. tree →
• Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one’s prejudices.” tree →

note

Noun: improvement (an improvement, improvements). «Improve on» = beat a previous result. In maths problems: «improved by 5 points» means the new score = old score + 5.

In the corpora

• Getting feedback on your own work, then improving it yourself, is a good use if your school allows it.
• Some apps use what people type to train and improve their AI, so type as if someone else might read it.
• After a show the director gives praise and notes, small changes to make it better next time; good work can still improve.
• Useful feedback is kind, specific and helpful: it names something that works and one clear thing to improve.
• A draft is a version of your work that you plan to improve.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «improve» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.